A woman wanted for the attempted kidnap of her ex-Second Life boyfriend has been caught after a search that spread across several states. 33-year-old Kimberly Jernigan had an online affair with a 52-year-old man via Second Life, and when he ended the relationship, she became quite distressed ... as well as demented, if this story is anything to go by.
The relationship ended after the pair had met in real life (likely meaning she didn't resemble her Second Life avatar enough), and in the beginning of August, Kimberly allegedly drove to her ex-boyfriend's Pennsylvania workplace and attempted to kidnap the man at gunpoint. Apparently she couldn't even manage that successfully, and had to come back two weeks later and track him down to his Delaware home, posing as a postal worker to find his address. After cutting and removing a screened window to gain entry to the man's house, she lay in wait for him with a set of handcuffs, a roll of duct tape, a taser, a BB gun and her dog Gogi.
Her foolproof scheme failed after the man simply ran away, having entered to find a laser beam pointed at his chest. Kimberley had fled soon after, but her dog was discovered bound in duct tape and abandoned in the bathroom to stop him making noise. She was found an hour later in Maryland and taken into custody after a "brief struggle" at a rest stop.
We don't often run Second Life stories on Destructoid, but after reading the above ... can you blame us for breaking tradition just this once?
[Thanks, Wardrox]
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10:15 AM on 08.23.2008
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Reminds me a bit of Bernann McKinney, the puppy-cloning former beauty queen who captured a mormon sex slave. Why do these stories always involve dogs?
lol non-americans making sweeeping generalizations
So...yeah, you're right.
With a crowbar.
So, Second Life, basically.
Poor dog.
This second life certainly has fringe benefits.
I hope that guy wasn't married,(or do I hope his wife found out? Hmmm)
Her poor dog is the sickest part, I hope that her was rescued to a GOOD owner!!!
BEVERLY
"lol americans'
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG SO FUCKING FUNNY!!!
"More important" than humans? Ehhh . . . there are instances wherein a human's life would take priority over an animal's (fireman has time to grab one thing from burning house, takes person over family pet, etc).
But I COULD say that, in this story, I think I feel a lot more sympathy for the dog than I do either of the human morons. I mean, in general, some of the worst atrocities of which humans are capable are things animals simply don't do. The rare times they DO act out viciously or cruelly, it's instinctual - if humans are capable of higher reasoning, then we should be above figuratively eating our young (yet, you have people who, for example, will kill or abandon their children for things like relationships, or money).
So maybe by our laws, humans are "more important" than animals. But there are proportionally very few humans for which I have the level of respect that I do for MOST animals. If that says anything.
True enough, I do feel sorry for the dog. They showed him on the news and he looked like, "Oy, what the hell happened to me?" But I would say I feel equally sorry for the people. They're both obviously messed up: She's obsessive and clingy, clearly unbalanced and a generally sad human being, and being rejected by someone who "loved" you until they saw you in person is absolutely shattering. And if he's looking for love in Second Life, he can't exactly be in a great place either. (And I would argue that using Second Life at all indicates that a person has problems...) The dog's certainly the most sympathetic of the three, being the most innocent party, but I think all three are deserving of some degree of sympathy. It's just an ugly situation.
My major objection is just how people tend to get up-in-arms when things are done to animals, but they hardly bat an eye when something happens to people. I'm not saying we should bump animals down a notch on the priority scale, just that people should be raised back up on it.
Well, unless you want to count "omgthatwomanisnuckingfuts" as a word. That would work.